"Soups and stews can be as nutritious and delicious as they are low-budget and family finance friendly.... This 256-page compendium of thoroughly 'kitchen cook friendly' recipes showcase more than 250 palate pleasing, appetite satisfying, inexpensive, easy to prepare dishes.... From the making of basic chicken, beef, vegetable and seafood stocks, to such homespun gourmet dishes as Dilled Vegetable Chowder; Basque Bean and Cabbage Soup; Curried Fish Stew; Braised Beef with Rosemary and Celery, and Asian Turkey Chili, $3 Soups and Stews offers an impressive variety of dishes with step-by-step instructions."—Midwest Book Review